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Jul 20, 2016gloryb rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Finished this book in a day's read. What a title - a good one as it can be interpreted in so many ways, but not the way Leon relates it to her story. Leon has more political and social comments about Venice in this story than perhaps in the others. She weaves them into Brunetti's interaction with his fellow workers and his superiors. These comments add flavor to the setting and I enjoy that aspect of her books. Brunetti seems to be tiring of the way the system works, but acknowledging it, he, too, manipulates it to get his way. He can be just as creative in his ideas of getting around the system as his secretary. Leon continues to inform us about the lives of his two children and marriage - everything is "happy families", but there is tension at work when Brunetti is asked by an aging friend of the family to investigate the circumstances surrounding an incident that left her granddaughter disabled.